Abstract:A study to assess the quality of life among patients receiving chemotherapy in selected hospitals of Pune city. The objectives of the study were to assess the Quality of life of patients undergoing chemotherapy and to associate the findings with the demographic variables. A non-experimental descriptive study enrolling 150 patients was conducted during July 2018. Non probability purposive sampling technique was adopted. Analysis was done using frequency and percentage distribution and chi square test. FACT-G Version 4 was used to assess the quality of life of Cancer patients.
Finding: In the present study, from the data analysed, it is evident that demographic variable are significantly associated with research domain as Physical Wellbeing, social Wellbeing Emotional Wellbeing and in Functional Wellbeing. Description of the cancer patients according to their Clinical characteristics shows that 41.3% of the patients were having weight between 51-60 kg. Most (16%) of them were suffering from breast cancer and received 3 to 4 cycles of chemotherapy. Half (57.3%) of them were on Paclitaxel and 50% of them were on normal diet. It deals with the assessment of quality of life of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy shows 71.3% of the cancer patients were having moderate impairment in Physical Wellbeing, social wellbeing domain shows that majority (68.7%) of the cancer patients were having severe impairment, majority 76% of the cancer patients were having moderate impairment in Emotional Wellbeing and in Functional Wellbeing 78.7% of the cancer patients were having mild impairment.
Conclusion: The study found that patients total quality of life of cancer patients shows that majority 87.3% of the cancer patients were having moderate impairment and well as 10.7% Severe impairment and 2.0%mild impairment.